Step by Step Guide Veeam B&R 7 Upgrade
Yesterday, Veeam released Veeam Backup and Replication 7, which contains some significant improvements such as backup to tape, parallel backups (simultaneous backups with the same job), SureBackup for replicas, and more. The full list can be viewed either at http://go.veeam.com/v7 or http://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html?ad=men… This article provides a step by step guide for an upgrade from Veeam […]
Aggregating With Extracts – Why and How Would I Do Such a Thing?
So, Here’s the “Why” In Tableau, we are easily able to slice and dice the data according to our dimensions thanks to the default manner in which Tableau aggregates the data on our behalf. Therefore, I can simply add any measure and trust the view is appropriate at that level; from an overview, down to […]
2013 HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Review
Just last week, HP Vertica wrapped up it’s first-ever Big Data Conference. The conference was the biggest opportunity to date for InterWorks and other Vertica partners to share their working knowledge of Vertica and network with each other. The Big Data Conference also featured several prominent members of HP and Vertica staff and leadership, allowing […]
Logging On Different Domain with Tableau Desktop
The Problem As consultants, we often run into instances where we need to connect to a Microsoft SQL database as a user from another domain. Using SQL Server Management Studio fails the login because we can’t specify which domain credentials to use, just that we want to use them. Naturally, it defaults to the domain credentials […]
Quantifying Myself with Tableau
One of the dangers of getting older, enjoying technology or writing a book is becoming sedentary. In December of last year, I realized that my lifestyle was simply not healthy. I wasn’t eating properly or exercising enough. My weight was 182 pounds (well over my ideal of 155). I decided to use the time I […]
Tableau via PowerShell, Part 2: Saving Changes
This is part 2 of my mini-series on exploring Tableau workbooks with PowerShell. If you missed it, you should read Part 1: Opening Workbooks, before continuing. Welcome back! Last time I showed you how to open a Tableau workbook (TWB or TWBX) in PowerShell so you could start exploring the raw XML. Today I’ll show […]
Understanding Layout Containers in Tableau
New and old Tableau users alike struggle with grasping Tableau’s concept of Layout Containers. I put together this exercise last week for a recent training course to help explain what is going on behind the scenes. Layout Containers in Tableau 8 force spatial relationships between dashboard components. Conceptually, they allow the dashboard designer to format […]
Tableau via PowerShell, Part 1: Opening Workbooks
In this mini-series I’m going to show you some cookbook style examples for using PowerShell to explore your Tableau workbooks. Follow along, this is going to be fun! Tableau workbooks (TWB files) are just XML files. Packaged workbooks (TWBX files) are just ZIP files that contain a TWB and various assets, like data extracts for […]
20-Minute Tableau Viz: Legal Medical Marijuana
I saw an interesting post and data set this morning from ProCon.org. The information was in tabular form, so I copied it and extracted the data into Tableau. 20 minutes later, I had a fully-interactive dashboard that presented the information relevant to me in a map. The map displays the year medical marijuana was legalized […]
jKal: Yet another jQuery datepicker plugin
jKal is a simple jQuery based datepicker plugin. I built this for a project with a very specific need, and felt it worked well enough that it might be of benefit to others. jKal Screenshot jKal works best when the date chosen does not have to go forwards or backwards more than a few […]